Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday, Indian soldiers descend on villages just a few miles from the desert test range and order the pacifist Bishnoi herdsmen, who refuse to kill animals or cut down trees, to evacuate. At precisely 3:45 p.m., three devices explode in five seconds: a normal fission bomb, a low-yield bomb for tactical battlefield use and something like a hydrogen bomb, which U.S. officials later insist could have been only a less powerful "boosted" weapon using tritium fuses to amplify the fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful...
...pass through some moral looking glass into a devouring universal consumers' bazaar wherein the remotest locales sell the fanciest drugs and perversions, and the minds of the young, ungrounded by their absent parents' experience or protection, become unrecognizably weird. Mindy, a model-pretty 17-year-old and former Nazi Low Rider gone over to the Sharps, nonetheless reports that her heroes--besides Alicia Silverstone--are Hitler and Charles Manson: "I think [Manson]'s cute...
...noted the increased use of easily traced electronic-cash transactions and data-packed microchip cards [BUSINESS, April 27]. Both threaten individual privacy. Given the low priority that North American governments give to protecting personal privacy, it's doubtful that new laws will keep up with the increase in unauthorized data surveillance. We should at least insist that federal lawmakers preserve our right to continue to use hard cash or checks and that microchip identity cards not be forced on unwilling citizens. PAUL BOBIER Kitchener...
...business hotel's ranking from 3 1/2 to four stars last year, but for the additional comforts, guests are now paying a mere $87, about $20 less than they were paying a year ago. "It's a matter of repositioning and offering true value for money," says Margaret Low, the hotel's marketing director...
Business travelers may grumble about moving to the back of the Airbus, but in the air and on the ground, special deals abound for those who are willing to lower their sights. Even though the base rate at Singapore's Hotel Phoenix is about $160 a night, marketing director Low admits that she "is happy to let you stay for $87 a night." Many hotels are spicing up the discount deal with a slew of extras, from free clothes pressing to complimentary limousine transport and free breakfast. Hong Kong's Conrad Hotel, for instance, is offering a standard room, with...